“CHRONOLALIA – Artist talk” presented by Spiess
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In Chronolalia, we understand the relationship between human microbiota and humans through the deanthropocentric “figure-ground inversion” of anthropology and the “inverse anthropological model” (Roy Wagner 2001, Eduardo Viveiros De Castro 2015). In Western thought, nature is the common innate basis of humans and non-humans, from which the human soul and spirit are most distinct. In ciontrast, inverse anthropology describes that all beings are endowed with the same soul and spirit and thus see the same world. The human soul is the common innate basis of humans and microbiomes, from which both are distinguished by their morphological body characteristics. This is not so much a common world, but the respective reference creates a relational world in which place and time take on a relational meaning.
In our highly specific deep learning based setup, the visitors experience themselves as relational subjects in the moment in which they hear themselves differently through the time-based growth of the microbiota. The subject of the speaker in Chronolalia is thus dissolved into a decentralised relational event and a diffuse resonance/sound event. This no longer thematises a fixed, central, linear, time-related subject, but a polytemporal community with subject parts that are distributed among all actors (speakers, former speakers, community of oral microbes with reproductive interests).
